Yeah, we iterate that with this:

Ear waving mechanism test. Yum.

Form Robot Living, a tree planting concept machine. . .

. . .that looks suspiciously like this tree harvesting machine of doom:

Here’s footage of the Kali-like tree creator-destroyer in action:

Yeah, that’s what we thought.

This is charming, thought up and done by Cinegraphic Studios. It’s also an adorable meditation on what the heck a robot actually *is*, anyway.

[Mange takk LaughingSquid!]

They always make us so darn gooey-feeling.

To be sure, this one looks like a work in progress.

Nemo Gould is a sculptor who works by himself but also with Applied Kinetic Arts, a loosely formed collective of artistic ne’er do wells bent on raising awareness of kinetic arts in all its amorphously defined glory.

To see more jaw dropping knock down awesome robots from Nemo, see his website here.

Willow Garage roolz, and not just because they have been a delightsome sponsor for RoboGames. They have invented the PR2, which among it other fantastic talents, will soon become commercially available.

Scott Hassan, Willow Garage founder, made a quick a dirty PR2 Contest after the PR2 launch party (for which all of us here at the Robunker suck because we couldn’t make it) for which the winners competed for a 10k aggregate prize.

Presented without (too much) comment, the winner:

[Thanks Hizook!]

Welcome Robot Fighting League member Guerra De Robots, a confederation between IEEE, IEEE Mexico, and UPIITA

Their motto is “Luchando por nuestra identidad tecnológica”, or “Fighting for our technical identity.

We expect great things of them in the coming months, mostly involving solving highly refined technical problems in order to bash the living hell out of the other robot in the arena. ¡Que tenga buena suerte, todos!

Christian Ristow makes giant robots. His wife, Christina, also makes giant robots. They are about to be blessed with a small robobaby of their own.

This is not a robobaby. This is a giant killer robot.

If that is not enough, he has started up a new blog about hauling large piles of metal from one place to another, and back again.

He is a little like these here inhabitant of the RoBunker, only, *way* cooler. Please extend you attention to words by the maker of the Hand Of Man, The Subjugator, and the Spiderbot.

This is also not a robobaby, this is a robot made to look like and arachnid.

You may have seen their work during SRL shows, exquisite classy gallery shows, or in the desert:

Photo Montage courtesy Mr. Nightshade’s Flickr stream

The new blog is about the pitfalls and triumphs that happen when you are an artist and do everything for yourself for a living. It is a window one doesn’t often get to see through when one is a spectator at a slick show or well done live perfromance. We over here are enjoying it immensely!

Over at Wired Gamelife, here’s a nifty video of the ever popular Kuka industrial robots, who seem to be moving more and more into entertainment (you may remember them from a Jon Bon Jovi concert or perhaps from Wired’s NextFest).

The robot is making a light sculpture in real time for the
Xbox Game Halo Reach. Players log in to Facebook and get to plot one tiny speck of light in the location of their choice.

It is a nifty little project that the kids can squeal about, but I can’t help but think it’s really just a massive plot to direct the correct coordinates for total earth destruction by the alien forces watching us from behind Pluto. I would categorically refuse to participate in the destruction of human kind at the hands of faceless superfuture beings, but IT’S SO SHINY! Also, giant robot arm! YES!

COMBOTS CUP V

Yes, it’s

COMBOTS CUP V
October 23-24th, 2010 at the beautiful San Mateo Expo Center in beautiful San Mateo, Ca. Tickets are on sale now at Combots.net!

COMBOTS CUP V is so stupendous I am contractually obligated to spell it in all caps.

COMBOTS CUP V is robot combat at its best, with competition from the tiniest 1-pound ant weights to 220lb heavyweights (which are on the biggish side).

Thank You Mad Overlord for the hi-def videos from RoboGames 2010, whoo.

See the thrill of victory, and the smoke and flames of defeat! See small children getting into hard core mechanical engineering and software programming! See who wins some of our $3500 prize purse, and who goes home in a bucket.